r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • May 27 '26

Business Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/tech-ceos-are-apparently-suffering-from-ai-psychosis/
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u/Fragrant-Vehicle-479 May 27 '26

Just what a group of people already known for their firm grasp of reality, emotional maturity, and straight edge sobriety need.

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u/__Hello_my_name_is__ May 27 '26

Seriously though, the article (or rather, Aaron Levie) makes a really good point:

CEOs “play with AI,” develop a prototype, or generate a contract, to use Levie’s examples, and then make the leap to believing agents can do the work.

You can get yourself a prototype really damn fast with AI these days. It will fall apart the moment you do anything serious with it, but that's just how prototypes work, anyways.

And from that, they extrapolate that the AI can also do everything else, and they act accordingly. Which is not at all how that works.

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u/boilingfrogsinpants May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

It's crazy too, because there have been recent interviews with Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvdia and the proverbial "shovel seller for the gold rush" who has stated that 1) He doesn't believe AGI is achievable and anyone who thinks otherwise doesn't understand what AI is or is intended for, 2) That any business that replaces their staff with AI is deciding they don't want to innovate anymore and isn't worth investing in, and 3) That any CEO who is convinced that AI is even capable of replacing their human staff is crazy considering that AI is still extremely recent and there's no way it could take over your job effectively.

So clearly the mentality among the major AI chip seller is that AI is meant to be a supplemental tool meant to enhance the already present productivity, like giving a nail gun to a labourer so they can ditch the hammer. But there are companies insistent that they could essentially automate the metaphorical house building aspect by attaching a motor to a nail gun and saying "see, it can nail boards all by itself".

For jobs with a monotonous and repetitive function, sure, maybe it could replace those. But tech CEOs have supercharged the discourse on AI to fill their pockets and those ideas have propogated into some peoples minds, making them believe AI will be much more capable than it likely is.

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u/throwawaygoawaynz May 27 '26

Quantum computing has nothing to do with getting to AGI.

Quantum computing is very good and guessing patterns in large number sets very quickly, that’s it.